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Playoff Preview - vs Western (4-4)
Oct. 26, 2007
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The No. 8 ranked Queen's Golden Gaels will face a familiar foe in their first home playoff game in four years. Queen's (6-2) will entertain the Western Ontario Mustangs (4-4) this Saturday in the OUA quarterfinals at Richardson Stadium at 1pm.

The Mustangs enter the postseason having won their last four games of the regular season including last Saturday's 37-3 dismantling of the host Waterloo Warriors. The game with Waterloo was a pseudo playoff game with the winner getting sixth place and the loser having their season come to an end.

Queen's and Western opened the 2007 OUA season with a game in London on Labour Day where the Gaels won a 26-20 overtime thriller on a Mike Giffin (Kingston) touchdown. In that meeting, Western led 13-3 at halftime and 20- 6 late in the third quarter before the Gaels mounted their comeback.

New for this week the Gaels Club will be converted into a family fun zone with lots of games for kids and the entire family.

The area - located in the stadium just beyond the north end zone - will open at 12 noon and there will be a bouncy castle, a soccer kick game, a baseball toss game and a football throw game (throw the football through a hole in a cut out, life size Gaels player) set up in the area.

The Gaels Club will once again have Plasma TVs set up with the Cogeco feed so fans can watch the game with replays. The area will have food and soft drink service as well.

Please come join the fun!

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By Brock Harrison

Coach Pat Sheahan listed off the physical dimensions of his hulking offensive linemen as though they were prizefighters on their way to the ring.

The Golden Gaels welcome their longtime rivals, the Western Mustangs, to town tomorrow in a first-round Ontario University Athletics football playoff game and yesterday, during his weekly roundup with fans, Sheahan made no secret as to where he thinks the game will be won and lost.

"The O-lines will hold the balance of power in the game," Sheahan stated, with most of his strapping linemen seated on bar stools in an apparent show of strength .

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Morris Dalla Costa
Sun Media

There's one thing both sides agree on.

The Queen's Golden Gaels were fortunate to go home from London with an opening-game win over the Western Mustangs on Sept. 3.

Not that it matters much now. An entire Ontario university football season has passed and both teams have gone through a lot.

"I'd like to think both teams have improved a season's worth," said Queen's coach Pat Sheahan. "I look at both teams being even in game one, I don't know how much more even I would have been comfortable with, with the game going into overtime like that. It's going to be a great evaluation on how far both teams have come."

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On the evidence, coach Pat Sheahan and offensive co-ordinator Warren Goldie never forgot the hard lesson of Nov. 1, 2003, the last time the Queen's Golden Gaels hosted a playoff game.

That infamous upset overtime playoff loss to Laurier that we Queen's types don't talk about has been alluded to in conversation more than once this week. For some friends who are more well-adjusted 25-to-34-year-olds and thus less obsessive about Queen's football, that game is a point of reference. It inculcated a belief that every Queen's team, no matter what its record, has some crucial design flaw, like the Death Star. It makes for a superficial parallel since this team is at least favoured in Saturday's OUA quarter-final vs. the Western Mustangs (1 p.m., cfrc.ca) as those '03 Gaels were. Well, it could happen again, but chances are it won't, since Sheahan, Goldie, and Co. have changed tactics.

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Morris Dalla Costa, Sun Media

WATERLOO -- The Western Mustangs' regular season isn't going to leave anyone quaking in fear.

"I don't think teams want to match up against us even though we had a slow start." -- Mustangs' quarterback Mike Faulds.

But the regular season is over and any loss from here on in and it's season over. That's the kind of pressure that worries everyone.

So while the Mustangs have had a frighteningly mundane season, they are the type of team no one really wants to meet in the playoffs.
Rob Bagg at Toronto
Posted By Claude Scilley

It was, Rob Bagg insisted, no big deal. At least, not so much for him.

"Danny Brannagan had a great game. His placement of the ball was great," Bagg said, first deferring to his quarterback when analysing the second-greatest receiving game in the history of Canadian intercollegiate football.

Bagg caught nine passes for 341 yards Saturday, as the Queen's Golden Gaels closed their regular Ontario University Athletics football season with a 54-24 win over the Toronto Blues.

Bagg was gracious afterwards.
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The Western Mustangs' fourth straight win leaves them confident heading into Saturday's playoff game at Queen's.


"We're the team no one wants to see in the playoffs." -- Western safety Matt Carapella.

Ryan Pyette, Sun Media

WATERLOO -- Western safety Matt Carapella stood near the centre of the field at University Stadium and gazed proudly at the scoreboard where a big "3" hung under the Waterloo Warriors' name.

"See that," he said after the top-ranked Western defence held Waterloo to a first- quarter field goal and Randy McAuley rushed for three touchdowns in a 37-3 demolition of the Warriors for the Mustangs' fourth straight win to secure the sixth and final playoff berth on the last day of the Ontario university football regular season.

"Three points. Our defence has been incredible the last four games. We have a ton of confidence right now and it's going to carry over. We're going to Queen's next week (for a quarter-final in Kingston) and we can't wait to get there.

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